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Glimpsing the hidden history of utopian village Saint-Rome
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Glimpsing the hidden history of utopian village Saint-Rome

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Chris O'Brien
Feb 19, 2019
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The village of Saint-Rome, with its 40 official inhabitants, offers one of the more quirky sidebars in the southwest of France thanks to its legacy as a former utopian village. Last weekend, having just recently heard about Saint-Rome for the first time, we decided to visit and hike around to see just how much of its unusual past we could see.

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